Leather-dresser s table



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UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

C. T. VVOODMAN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

LEATHER-MESSER@TABLE.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, C. T. WOODMAN, of Boston, in the county of Suolk andState of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful improvement in what is technically termed a morocco, kid, or leather dressers table, withframe or stand for same, also glitter for conducting Water and liquidsoozing from the leather in process of manufacture, also elevating-screwsattached to legs. of frame or stand for adjusting the stand or frame touneven surfaces or floors, also for adjusting the height of said tablecorresponding to the various wishes and diii'erences between men of lowor high stature; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in Which-Figure l is a face View of table. Fig. 2 is afront view or elevation oftable, stand, or frame and elevating-screws employed for the purpose.Fig. 3 is an end view or elevation of same with gutter.

Similar letters of reference indicate parts This invention is designedto supersede the ordinary manner of making morocco, kid, and leatherdressers tables, also stands or frames, also gutters, and elevating thesame to any desired height by screws.

These tables hitherto have been made of various kinds of wood, marble,and stone. The Vwood tables, which, by the constant changing of work onthem from what is technically called wet work77 to dry Work,7 thereforeat times causing the Wood to swell in wet work, and shrinking in dryWork, causing the seams to open, thereby leaving the leather impressedwith the open space from the seams or joints, thereby disliguring theleather. Other inconveniences arise from Wooden tables which areobviated by my invention-viz A constant wear from metal slickers77 andstones used in the manufacture of leather, by their sliding from theleather onto the table of Wood at nearly every stroke of the workmen,causing the wood to rough up 7 tr gouge out and make an uneven surface.Therefore a constant planing has to be done to make them t for useagain, also by con- `staut planing they soon become so thin that theyare worthless.

Another inconvenience arising from the use of wood tables is that incities and large towns, where rents are high, the manufacturers ofleather have to occupy lofts of different buildings,and the liabilityofthe wood tables to leak often causes unpleasant feelings to theoccupants below. The stands or frames have heretofore been made of wood.Therefore, by the constant work on them they soon become rickety, andare subject to oscillation.

As to marble and stone tables, they have been condemned for many yearson account of the injury they do to the tools used on the leather andthe constant striking the table with them.

A glass, porcelain, pottery, or any other plastic ware does not dull orinjure the tools in the process of their use.

My invention consists in having the table made of glass, porcelain,pottery, or any other plastic wares, all in one plate. Therefore therecannot be any leakage or shrinkage by the change of wet to dry work ordry to wet work. The plate of glass, porcelain, pot tery, or plasticware can be made to answer the purpose'of a table without any othersupport except the frame or stand. But for the purpose of cheapening theprice a wood or metallic bed fitted to the size of the plate, theglass,porcelain, pottery,or plastic ware can be embedded thereon withcalcined plaster or any other suitable substance that will secure a rmor level surface, and by the above process a thin plate will answer thepurpose of a thick plate.

For the better security against liquids oozing from the leather duringthe process of manufacture, at the lowest part of the table I havesubstituted a metallic gutter, which runs under the plate or tableseveral inches, Vthereby making it secure from leakage. The frame orstand is made from iron or any other metallic substance, obviating theoscillation that Wooden frames are liable by constant use.

To obviate the constant lowering and rising of the frame and table bythe use of blocks or bricks to a certain. elevation suited to thedifferent heights of men, I have substituted elevating-screws of iron orany other metallic substance in the end of each leg of stand.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct myinvention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents a glass plate, also porcelain, pottery, or any plasticplate, which may be nza le of any length, width, or thickness suitablefor the Work intended.

B represents the bed for plate, made or metal or wood, said plate beingembedded in plaster or any other suitable substance that Will give afirm or level surface.

C represents the metallic gutter.

D represents the front View or elevation of frame or stand.

E represents the end View or elevation of table, frame, and gutter. Thepitch is to an

